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I saw a show last night elaborating on just how much of a scam this form of 'healing' really is. Homeopathic remedies are so horendously diluted that no active ingredients can be detected in products already approved by the government. Basic ingredient for all tested products; glucose or sucrose. The Ontario government is about to approve homeopathy as a legitimate medical practise. What a friggin' joke! On the show they demonstrated just how diluted these products are. A woman stood by a huge lake and from an eye dropper allowed one single drop into the water. The lake, she said, now contains more active ingredient than any single product tested for 'active ingredient'.

Sugar pills can cure many ailments. The power of the mind is an incredible thing. I would totally believe in homeopathy if SOMEONE could please explain to me this one question:If there is no active ingredient in a remedy, how can it cure?

I worked for medical journals at one time and am all too familiar with the fact that people in general are overmedicated. Doctors (not all, but many) DO overprescribe. They are rewarded lavishly by the pharmaceutical industry for doing so. I would much rather give me children natural remedies. Sugar pills, however? No way.When I lived in Fiji I had a terrible ear infection from bathing in stagnant water (the pond was where everyone bathed). I had to leave the island I was living on and head back to Suva to the hospital. I was given painkillers and antibiotics. Neither did much for more than about five minutes. I was in sheer agony and would wake up in the night sweating and wishing I could just die. It was awful! Someone rolled me a nice fat joint and that was it. The pain left me! Unbelievable, the medicinal powers of natural marijuana. I swear, it was the only thing that worked for me.

I'm with you Slan and I think it can be verified scientifically. The mind is extremely powerful and if you believe in a cure or a healing from someone, your mind produces endorphins and other chemicals that can pose as curative. How long it lasts depends on how long you believe it can.

mmkrain, I witness this often. Sometimes I find myself (often actually) in a most fortunate situation. I sit and marvel about how lucky I am that I ended up in a situation I had been dreaming of. It dawns on me at those times that maybe my positive thoughts and sheer optimism along the way just might have had something to do with it. Once? Lucky maybe. Twice? Coincidence to some but I don't tend to believe in coincidences. Three times? A pattern begins to form and to casually dismiss it would surely be foolish.

Slan, years ago I took a class on positive thinking and positive envisioning. I wanted to buy a house so I drew a picture of what the house would look like and drew up a vision of the downpayment I would need. My engineer husband scoffed at me but it didn't deter me. I put up positive sayings on my mirrors, doors, the refrigerator and meditated on them for weeks.

Well, my husband received a bonus on a client he had not even thought about and it was our downpayment. I asked my friend who had just received her real estate license to show us places that Sunday. The third house was exactly as I had drawn it and I told her to put in an offer. My husband was dumbfounded and asked how I knew what I wanted. I told him I had designed it in my mind and this was the house. We bought it and lived in it for years.

I'm a real fan of positive thinking as we do, in fact, design our lives. I've fallen off the boat a bit during my life but I'm back on and am designing my new life as we speak. :)

That's fantastic! It always catches me a little off guard STILL when I find myself in a wonderful situation. I should be used to it by now. lol.A few years ago, at three months pregnant with son number three, I came home to find an 'oops I've had a change of heart' letter. I was so scared. I had just bought/moved into this house, had no history of payments/bills yet so didn't know if I'd manage financially. I ended up in the hospital due to the stress (chest pains). I knew then that I needed to stop worrying, for the sake of my little baby growing inside of me as well as for my other two little boys. I 'let go' completely. I decided 'yes I have faith all will be ok.' I had no idea how it would all be ok, but that wasn't important. I just decided to acknowledge all WOULD be OK. The stress instantly left me and their was peace once again. Since then I have given birth to that gorgeous healthy baby boy, beautified our little country paradise, managed to base my career around my children's schedules (and won several awards for my work along the way!). Everything has worked out wonderfully. Faith is an incredible thing that can take you anywhere you want to go.

Faith is everything Slan and faith in oneself and a belief that what we have called forth the most positive circumstances in our lives is of extreme importance. I'm thrilled all is working out for you and know this Slan, it shall continue - maybe challenged from time to time, but it is forever.